114. Sam Bowman - Are we *under-hyping* AI?
Google the phrase “AI over-hyped”, and you’ll find literally dozens of articles from the likes of Forbes, Wired, and Scientific American, all arguing that “AI isn’t really as impressive at it seems fr...
2 Mar 202247min
113. Yaron Singer - Catching edge cases in AI
It’s no secret that AI systems are being used in more and more high-stakes applications. As AI eats the world, it’s becoming critical to ensure that AI systems behave robustly — that they don’t get th...
9 Feb 202235min
112. Tali Raveh - AI, single cell genomics, and the new era of computational biology
Until very recently, the study of human disease involved looking at big things — like organs or macroscopic systems — and figuring out when and how they can stop working properly. But that’s all start...
2 Feb 202242min
111. Mo Gawdat - Scary Smart: A former Google exec’s perspective on AI risk
If you were scrolling through your newsfeed in late September 2021, you may have caught this splashy headline from The Times of London that read, “Can this man save the world from artificial intellige...
26 Jan 20221h
110. Alex Turner - Will powerful AIs tend to seek power?
Today’s episode is somewhat special, because we’re going to be talking about what might be the first solid quantitative study of the power-seeking tendencies that we can expect advanced AI systems to ...
19 Jan 202246min
109. Danijar Hafner - Gaming our way to AGI
Until recently, AI systems have been narrow — they’ve only been able to perform the specific tasks that they were explicitly trained for. And while narrow systems are clearly useful, the holy grain of...
12 Jan 202250min
108. Last Week In AI — 2021: The (full) year in review
2021 has been a wild ride in many ways, but its wildest features might actually be AI-related. We’ve seen major advances in everything from language modeling to multi-modal learning, open-ended learni...
5 Jan 202250min
107. Kevin Hu - Data observability and why it matters
Imagine for a minute that you’re running a profitable business, and that part of your sales strategy is to send the occasional mass email to people who’ve signed up to be on your mailing list. For a w...
15 Des 202149min
